Print'New York Times' Dining Section Becomes a Blog
Instead of posting all of their Dining section's stories on Tuesday nights in sync with the print publication Wednesday morning, the New York Times is going to publish the section's stories, online, throughout the week:
So last Friday afternoon, we posted a handful of Dining section articles that won’t appear in print until Wednesday morning. We also posted the food column from the Sunday Times Magazine. Then on Monday, we put up Eric Asimov’s piece on aglianico wines. Like other articles about food and drink, they appear on the Dining & Wine page.
It seemed to work, so we’re going to keep posting pieces throughout the week, as soon as they’re ready.
The print version of the Dining section will essentially become a dead-tree date-based archive of the Times' online food coverage. Nick Denton was right when he said "The New York Times is just a fancy blog."
Welcome to the fray, Dining section.
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2 Comments:
Interesting. Honestly, I don't really read the section in print anyway. I typically look for it online before I go to bed and read what's there. Then I read the rest of it shortly after waking up, to see what the paper has got up to. I actually subscribe to the printed newspaper, but it's mostly because I like doing the crossword on newsprint on the train on the way home. Apart from the Times op-ed, which I read on the train ride to work, I get most of my news online, via the radio, or through a variety of cable news channels.
Adam Kuban at 4:38PM on 09/16/08
Also, this is big news among food-media wankers like you and I, Raphael, but it would have been bigger news in general if they would have done this, like, 2 or 3 years ago. I remember when the Guardian in the U.K. announced that it would publish stories online first and go to print later.
What would really be interesting is to see the Times food section work more like the Times's City Room blog, under Sewell Chan. There, well-researched and reported blog posts might become print stories or the blog might run further with a story that originally appeared in print. Like when Chan broke the Heath Ledger thing.
Adam Kuban at 4:48PM on 09/16/08